So who knew amongst the staff that the Gov. was embezzling tax-payer money?

These are scary people, they appear to be completely lacking in any sort of moral/ethical standard except being chosen by Jesus.

Lindsay Beyerstein: The Family has some strange ideas about what it means to be chosen by God. Tell me about the incident in the book when Doug Coe’s son, David Coe, dropped by Ivanwald to give the brothers instruction on chosenness.

Jeff Sharlet: David Coe used to be the heir apparent in the Family. He’s still involved in ministry to congressmen, and at the time he was also meeting with Hillary. He’d come around to talk to the young guys at Ivanwald to talk about his vision of Biblical leadership. One day he says to brother Beau: ”Suppose I heard you’d raped three little girls, what would I think of you?” Beau, being a human being, says, ”That I’m pretty bad?” But David Coe says: ”No, no, I wouldn’t. Because you’re chosen … like King David.”

If you’d read the personal sections of those e-mails without the identifying stuff, you’d believe they were written by someone in their late teens/early twenties. Someone who hasn’t had much experience with the love-drug. Someone who is completely, head-over-heels, loopy in love and hadn’t experienced it before.

Reading that stuff made me grateful that I’d been through that stuff in the days before the breakup of ATT, when long-distance calls were expensive, before e-mail existed. The stuff I wrote like that was committed to paper. If there is a gracious god in this universe, the recipients have long since disposed of them.